Sue Monson of Bangor Marina has won the RS Aero Northerns at Carrickfergus Sailing Club. The event was run as part of the RS Northern Championships wh.
Record Fastnet Race Challenge Taken Up By Ten Irish Boats
21st January 2021
Paul O Higgins champion JPK 10.80 Rockabill VI in action off the West Cork coast in Calves Week. She has raced round or past the Fastnet Rock several times in other events, but this year the star Dun Laoghaire boat will be doing the Rolex Fastnet Race itself for the first time
Credit: Robert Bateman
If anyone in the Royal Ocean Racing Club s suite of race offices was bothered by the thought that the 2021 change of course in the club s core event, the biennial Fastnet Race, was going to have a detrimental effect on entries, they didn t show it. And there was no need to worry, for within an hour of the list s electronic opening, it was already banging up against the 400-boat ceiling.